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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The butterfly effects would add up and and any zygote formed would not be the hitler-as-we-know anymore, since it would be a different combination of sperm and eggs.

Who needs guns when you got a time machine? Don't like your highschool bully, just bump into their parents back in time. Or you know, "bump" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) into their parents.

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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

'Robert L. Devaney, says that to classify a dynamical system as chaotic, it must have these properties:[22]

it must be sensitive to initial conditions, it must be topologically transitive, it must have dense periodic orbits. " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory

f(x)=x^y doesn't satisfy those 3 conditions. Nor does the paper you linked say that x^y is a chaotic equation.

That function in the paper cannot be solved for an input because of its sensitivity to initial input. He used a computer to simulate the time steps. He couldn't immediately calculate any point on the the plot like y^x.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 minutes ago

and again, in the definition you just pasted in there does not say anything about closed form solutions. You keep contradicting yourself in trying to die on that hill